Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!FIXED -- almost

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 12/1/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:54:45 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> you guys are killing me -- the problem goes away when the ac cord is >> plugged in. I open files watch videos surf the web and so on -- no >> problems. I'm no expert, b

[gentoo-user] git openrc skips init service

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I used the repo offered by Tony Marples to update openrc(0.5.2-r2 -> 0.5.2.4df8778) using git. It did a fine job except it failed to update /etc/init.d/net.lo. The original instance remains. Under /var/git/openrc all the init services were updated from .in to and installed in /etc/init

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
And, for the record, while people might be arguing with you, it's not > malicious. We are only trying to help. Fine, then read what I say and, until you know better, believe it.

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
meh, you got nothing On 12/1/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 22:19:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:57:58 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > Fine, then read what I say and, until you know better, believe it. >> >> OK, you'r

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
We just want to help you -- that's what the police say before they tase your ass On 12/1/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > meh, you got nothing > > On 12/1/09, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 22:19:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:57

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
09, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> We just want to help you -- that's what the police say before they tase >> your ass >> >> On 12/1/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> meh, you got nothing >>> >>> On

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
should be /var/git/openrc# git pull --rebase On 12/1/09, Maxim Wexler wrote: > so tell me how come none of you quarter-brights have responded to the > email where I say this problem has been fixed? > > you want to help? answer me this: why did # /var/git/openrc/git pull > --re

[gentoo-user] help w/ mobo/cpu combo

2005-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everbody, for an Asus K8N-E, skt 754, nForce3 w/ Sempron3100, 512DDR400 RAM, 120G ATA(IDE)drive, Radeon9250 video card. Anybody have any pointers, "gotchas" re setting up gentoo on such a system. USE flags? Proper kernel config? etc, etc... I have the 2004.3 and 2005.0 universal-install an

[gentoo-user] console switching wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Don't even know how to google for this one. Having giving up for now getting a Radeon9250 to work with gentoo. I replaced it with an ATI Rage128 AGP card and referenced the appropriate module, aty128fb, in modules.autoload. Now, even before configuring X something bizarre happens

[gentoo-user] Radeon 9250

2005-05-20 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, particularly the poster enquiring after the above video card, I must have mis-spoke, X wasn't even up and running before the card was configured to work w/ gentoo. But I despaired of ever getting it to work, considering the trouble I was already having with my system. Now there

Re: [gentoo-user] Next step - dialup networking

2005-05-20 Thread maxim wexler
I had a similar problem w/ dialup. The errors were [ppp] remote message: Authentication failure [ppp] PAP Authentication failed [ppp] Connection terminated Don't know if this will work for you. I found that for the few moments that I connected a couple of ip addresses were put into one of my logs

[gentoo-user] grub misfires?

2005-05-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, On a fresh install using 2005.0 universal-install CD. Boot hangs with Grub loading Stage1.5 Grub loading please wait. There's lots of advice on the web but nothing works so far. So far changed the boot order in the BIOS. grub-installed to every available partition. Toggled the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfires?

2005-05-26 Thread maxim wexler
> If your hda2 is /boot, then the path to the kernel > should be just > "vmlinuz", without the "/boot/". Done. Didn't work. Same error. > > I suspect you have a "boot" symlink in /boot to . Negative. #ls -l /boot total 1578 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 May 24 13:15 boot.0300 -rw-r--r--

Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfires?

2005-05-27 Thread maxim wexler
--- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do you even get the grub prompt? > > is there any error number? > No. All I see is Loading Stage 1.5. Please wait... Then nothing. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protecti

Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfires?

2005-05-27 Thread maxim wexler
> listing of the directory, are you _sure_ you had > /dev/hda2 mounted on > /boot, and were not looking at the contents of /boot > on the root filesystem? Let's see I boot the CD then, #mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo #mount /dev/hda2 /boot #swapon /dev/hda3 #mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc #ch

Re: [gentoo-user] grub misfires?

2005-05-28 Thread maxim wexler
> > > > Welcome to the list. You are correct...the problem > is that hda2 should > be mounted at /mnt/gentoo/boot before chroot'ing > into it. Sorry guys, this is what becomes of copying out commands with pen & paper then copying out the copies onto another piece of paper ;( ___

[gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Don't you just hate it when you repair the mistakes and it STILL don't work. I rebooted the 2005.0 install CD in full expectation of fixing the problem at last. I made the corrections suggested by the list(R.Price & R.Fish)and rebooted. I was convinced the biggest mistake was en

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broken

2005-05-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maxim wexler wrote: > > I rebooted the 2005.0 install CD in full > expectation > > of fixing the problem at last. > > mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo > chroot /mnt/gentoo > mount /dev/hda2 /boot > gr

[gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-30 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, on my former "main" box, K6-II, 500MHz I've managed to get to startx and, since grokking dialup, am web-surfing. Here's the issue: when Firefox opened up the first time it invited me to upgrade which I did by clicking the link provided. But now when I navigate to Firefox Extensions

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-30 Thread maxim wexler
> > Any chance you can post the full output of the setup > command? Maybe > there is a clue in there... Yikes! Now I get Error 12: Invalid device requested so much different from grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-30 Thread maxim wexler
> > So it's probably one of those two things. But if I > was you, I would > emerge sync and install Firefox through Portage > before going any further > anyway. > > Hope this helps. > Holly > -- Yes, thanks, emerge --sync is awesome! But must it run so long? I started more than an hour ago and

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> But isn't > > emerge --sync > > a different command from the more traditional > > emerge sync > > ? In An Intro to Portage it's emerge --sync and if that fails, emerge-websync but that failed too. > 1) What is the speed of your Internet connection? Slightly faster than I can type ;( > 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> > > maybe you can try this, > root (hd0,1) > setup (hd0) That's better. But it still doesn't work. Staring at a console right now telling me to please wait. grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Chec

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox sage

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> How long did your sync today take, and does an I aborted after about 2hrs > emerge -up world or > emerge -ua world seem to indicate that it was > successful (that packages haven't done that one yet but a list of the portage tree(if that's what /usr/portage is supposed to be) indicated that mos

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> choosing menu, then you'll need splashimage set in Whoa! IIRC splashimage is optional. Can somebody weigh in here? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- gentoo-user@g

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> > Ok, quick comparison to my results... > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > grub> setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/e

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-05-31 Thread maxim wexler
> And which OS are you choosing from the menu again, > maxim (assuming you > get to a menu)? Or does this affect all OSes in your > menu? no choice. After grub-install I get the Grub loading stage1.5 Grub loading, please wait... message(white text,black bg). To get back to Macroshaft I boot int

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Online stores (that ship to Canada)

2005-06-02 Thread maxim wexler
> cheaper to buy online. I've had good results w/ tigerdirect.ca. -mw __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-02 Thread maxim wexler
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html > > HTH, > > Michael Thanks for the tip. But before I try this(and this goes for Richard F's suggestion) how do I safely get rid of the grub I have? Or do I need to? The emerge -C flag comes w/ dire warnings, The manual entry for -c ment

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-03 Thread maxim wexler
> You should now reboot, and get a boot menu from the > floppy disk. If so, Here's what happens: Grub loading stage2 followed by the menu. Gentoo or WinXp. WinXP boots OK. When Gentoo is chosen however, a console opens with the words: Booting Gentoo root (hd0,1) then nothi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-03 Thread maxim wexler
Oops, What I was trying to say before I hit the wrong key, I paused the boot screen on the non-booting gentoo box and took a look at the HD line. It says the LBA mode is off. 32 bit mode is off. DMA mode is UDMA6, PIO mode is 4 FWIW -mw __ Disc

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-03 Thread maxim wexler
> I took a peek at the manual for your MB. You might > want to double check > the BIOS settings for the hard disk and make sure > that LBA/Large mode is > set to "Auto". It *is*. The only other choice is "disabled". > > Also, what is the CHS reported by the kernel in the > dmesg output? If i

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-03 Thread maxim wexler
> > Ah, some progress at last! Seems like there is a > problem in the > grub.conf file, but nothing too serious. Could you > re-post that file? > default 0 timeout 30 title=Gentoo root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 title=WinXP rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 > -Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-04 Thread maxim wexler
> > > Remove the "root (hd0,1)" line. That should (I > hope) let you boot > gentoo from the floppy. Arrrgh! Now when I choose "Gentoo" from the menu: Booting 'Gentoo' kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... _

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-05 Thread maxim wexler
> There are 2 distinct problems here: > > 1. Booting from floppyMaxim and I are very close > to solving this > one...only fixing up the grub.conf file remains. > Rebuilding grub is not > going to help a bit for this problem. In grub.conf commented out root(hd0,1) line; modified kernel line

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-05 Thread maxim wexler
> to copy your kernel > to the floppy also, and load it from there. Your > kernel is going to > have to be fairly petite to fit...probably less than > 1.2M or so. the kernel is already 1.57M. Are you saying I should reconfig the kernel? I recall modularizing most of the stuff I wouldn't need unt

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-06 Thread maxim wexler
> I can also give you the instructions for making a > bootable CD if you > want to try that. It isn't terribly hard, actually > it is a bit easier > than getting grub to work from a hard disk! But a > CD-RW drive/disk > would be the most useful... > > cd /tmp > mkdir -p cdboot/boot/grub > cd cd

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-07 Thread maxim wexler
> mkisofs -o /tmp/cdboot.iso -R \ > -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito \ > -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table > \ Not it's: mkisofs: Missing pathspec. Usage: mkisofs [options] file... You didn't say return to / so I'm assuming you want me to issue the command from livecd tmp #

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-07 Thread maxim wexler
> > There be a '.' (or './', if you like) at the end of > that, and yes, you > should still be inside the cdboot directory. > > cd cdboot > mkisofs -o /tmp/cdboot.iso -R \ > -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito \ > -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \ > -boot-info-table "./" > Here's 5 diffe

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-08 Thread maxim wexler
> >'cdboot/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito' ! > > > > > > That should be "-b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito"...so > take the 'cdboot' off > the front of that. Nope. Now I get: mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - - But I have another question: At what point does vmlinuz(under /tmp/cdboot/b

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-09 Thread maxim wexler
> You typod something. Looks like you put a space > between the '-' and the > first character of one of the options. Success! > these files included. You then use cdrecord to > write the ISO image to > the CD. Now, before burning it, I'm aware there have been changes made in the burning proc

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-09 Thread maxim wexler
> But, something just occurred to medoes this > system have 2 CD > burners, or a burner and a reader? If not, you will a burner and a reader > You may want to copy the .iso file over the network only dial-up available here. Networking different computers is a project in the long queue of

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-09 Thread maxim wexler
Richard, please resend your follow up to this post where you complain about the late hour. I deleted it by mistake! It apparently had an important correction. BTW, how long before these posts find there way into an archive. -maxim __ Discover Ya

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-10 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The correction was to replace "dev=/dev/cdrom" with > "dev=/dev/hdc". COASTER! Tried booting with the reader drive(Creative 24x DVD) -- it went clunk, clunk, clunk...nothing appeared on the screen but a blinking cursor. Tried booting with the wri

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-10 Thread maxim wexler
> possible level, and may be more reliably. But maybe > your burner is > broken (?) No, it's fine. Still under warranty. Works fine under WinXP. The reason I mentioned broadband is because big files(like install isos and pkg cds) can be downloaded in minutes instead of days. I can certainly down

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-13 Thread maxim wexler
> If you have a FAT partition for sharing files > between Linux and XP, you Done. Same result. Perhaps the call to mkisofs was at fault. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- ge

[gentoo-user] emerge pppconfig hassle

2005-06-13 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, When I set up pppconfig on my K6-II box w/2004.3 distro, there was no problem. I downloaded the proper tarballs from the gentoo mirror and they emerged OK. Now I'm trying to do the same on my other(Sempron3100) box w/2005.0 distro. The one w/ the broken grub. When I mount the pk

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-13 Thread maxim wexler
> What happens if you try to mount it under Linux or > view it under > Windows? Do you see the files? > > You can double check the ISO by doing: > > # mount -o loop cdboot.iso /mnt/cdrom > > And then compare the files to those on your /boot > partition. hmmm, livecd / # mount -o loop cdboot

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-15 Thread maxim wexler
Thanks for hanging in there with me, Richard > Anyway, back to grub. 2 things. > upgrade to 0.96, repeat If I could setup ppp on the sempron box it would be much simpler. But pppconfig is not on the 2005.0 pkg CD. I managed to set it up on the k6(2004.3)box alright and it sure came in handy. IIRC

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-15 Thread maxim wexler
> "emerge --buildpkgonly --oneshot grub" should do for well, it built the .94 version, the one I already have. All the while interspersing yellow-flagged warnings about upgrading to a version that uses tool-chain functions. Is that the one I need? How do I tell it to build the .96? I've run merge

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-16 Thread maxim wexler
> I assume you meant the directory "ls -l > /usr/portage/sys-boot/grub"? You are right. > Well, the 0.95-20040823 ebuild is masked ~x86 > (testing). But you should > also have 0.96, 0.96-r1, and 0.96-r2, and 0.96-r1 is > marked stable. Nope, nothing higher than 0.95. > > Do you get a differen

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-18 Thread maxim wexler
> > I've been trying to come up with a reasonable > explanation for this > behavior. Assuming that you can enter the BIOS somewhere in the code there must be a line that says print the letters G-R-U-B to a console then stop. > setup screens with this > keyboard, I have no answer to why this would

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-18 Thread maxim wexler
> OK, it may not be a reasonable explanation, but it > does make 'sense'-- > is it possible that the text color is the same as > the background color, > so that letters are being typed, but you simply > don't *see* them? I LOL Yeah, it's invisible ascii! You have to heat the screen with a blow-dry

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-18 Thread maxim wexler
> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 > exists, > you can change the symlink to point to that, run > emerge --sync, and that > should get your portage tree up to date on the k6. Done. Now it's !!! ARCH is not set ... are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink? !!! Is the symlink co

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-18 Thread maxim wexler
> > Or maybe the selected shell didn't initialize, > including grub's if this > is at that point? I managed to emerge grub-0.96 finally onto the non-booting machine hoping that would turn the trick, and ran grub-install. The result was the same as near the start of this thread: GRUB Loading stag

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-19 Thread maxim wexler
> So it look like we have to go back to trying to get > the CD booting to > work. Copy the /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito to > the boot/grub > directory on the ISO image, re-run the mkisofs > command we used before, > and burn the resulting ISO to a CD. Before that. I used emerge --buildpkgonl

[gentoo-user] grub less broke

2005-06-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Good news Richard Fish, I followed the advice offered in the current "Dell, Optiplex" thread and made a grub boot floppy(Why didn't we try that before?). Now I'm looking at a beautiful grub>_ prompt and wondering what my next step should be. It's weird, now the boot process gets

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-24 Thread maxim wexler
Went through the "saved" pile and found this: > Try 1 (should bring up the boot menu): > grub> configfile (hd0,3)/grub/grub.conf grub> configfile (hd0,1)/grub/grub.conf # /dev/hda2 Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS has this anything to do with LBA being "off" in POS

Re: [gentoo-user] grub less broke

2005-06-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > grub> root (hd > > and hit tab to allow it to do auto-completion? If it > says Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 > > grub> root (hd0, > then you hit tab again and see what partitions it > sees, if any. Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > Yep. Can you force LBA on? Used grub-install --force-lba /dev/hda. After a bunch of fd0 I/O errors(?) it said everything was fine, no errors found. Then I rebooted, got: GRUB Loading stage1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17 Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave same re

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > -- it *is* set to [auto] in the BIOS? BTW, HD is > Maybe if you turn on LBA it will help. It says here > that grub can access the full disk with LBA: see above. In the BIOS there are two choices, auto and disabled. If there's another way to turn LBA on, I'm all ears! > > You might need

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-24 Thread maxim wexler
> Error 17 > > Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave > same result > > Well, at least now it gives me an error num. ...answering himself 17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-25 Thread maxim wexler
> By diverse means, we arrive at the same end. > > Holly Thanks, Holly. I remember thinking your suggestion too drastic to contemplate. Starting to look more reasonable now :o -mw Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Si

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-26 Thread maxim wexler
> > Maxim, if you want the system to boot from the hard > disk, I really think > you have no choice but to repartition and re-install > the system, with > boot as the first partition. On the Sempron there are two HDs, the 120G, pri-mast and a 3.5G(fat32) as a pri-slave. LBA is set to auto in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-26 Thread maxim wexler
> Any advice would be really appreciated. > Here's what always works for me on a dual boot linux/xp box w/ xp on hda and linux on hdb and lilo doing boot duties: Prepare lilo.conf as if it knows nothing about xp, comment all the windows stuff out and install lilo to hdb1. Next, mount a floppy an

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread maxim wexler
--- "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > > > So there must be a problem w/ > > the Asus K8N-E(Sempron box) BIOS. I updated it > using > > the tool that came w/ the support CD but it only > made >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-29 Thread maxim wexler
> that before jumping on people trying to help. > Smart Alec! "Help" my eye! __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-07-02 Thread maxim wexler
> K8N-E. It says: > > way too damn slow for Tell me about it! Pages don't open or give errors or lead to a rabbit warren of irrelevant links. English often incomprehensible. No more Asus products for this buckaroo! > > It said that LBA mode will be disabled if the disk > was "formatted" > with

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-07-02 Thread maxim wexler
> K8N-E. It says: > > way too damn slow for Tell me about it! Pages don't open or give errors or lead to a rabbit warren of irrelevant links. English often incomprehensible. No more Asus products for this buckaroo! > > It said that LBA mode will be disabled if the disk > was "formatted" > with

[gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-02 Thread maxim wexler
Yee-hah! Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all that extra space. Onl

[gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-05 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I note there's no .bash_history file in my /home dir. I created one in the vain hope that gentoo would start filling it with command-line entries. No such luck. Anybody suggest a fix? TIA -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Y

Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS-Windows.html#DOS%2fWindows > > title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > chainloader +1 > > Zac Doesn't work. The WinXP boot console opens alright but that's all. As I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
> Try to adjust those variables: > > HISTFILE=/home/your_account/.bash_history > HISTFILESIZE=500 > HISTSIZE=500 > > > HTH, noro Thanks noro. I had to run the above from root and sure enough, they were written into my home dir .bash_history, along with the exit command to get back to user-spac

[gentoo-user] mutt probs

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Following the "Quickstart Guide to Mutt" have encountered the following problems: $fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Wed Jul 6 13:51:41 2005: poll started fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to se

[gentoo-user] mutt probs

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Following the "Quickstart Guide to Mutt" have encountered the following problems: forgot to mention Sell on Yahoo! Auctions – no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
> > Why did you have to create a user file as root (not > saying you didn't > have to, just asking why)? > > Holly When I tried running HIST* etc as user I was told I had to be root. __ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread maxim wexler
> > Then set the same environment variables in your > current shell and they > should stick. Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o > Sell on Yahoo! Auctions

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-07 Thread maxim wexler
> > So if you do "ls -l .bash*" in your home > directory, what's the output? > > > > I haven't been following this thread, but have you > tried doing set -o > history ? all academic now -- the pc just died :( Not a beep, no screen o/p. The green light on front of the box comes on for about 1/10

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing --now w/ dead pc

2005-07-08 Thread maxim wexler
> > Please tell me it isn't the same system that gave > you so much trouble > with grub!! :-< > > -Richard It is. Glad I have this spare(K6) > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has t

[gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, You may recall my tussle with an Sempron/Asus K8N-e box: first it wouldn't boot but I fixed that and then the entire unit died. The tech at Asus suggested I *reverse* the CMOS battery for a few seconds. I was skeptical but it seems to have done the trick. However LBA remains 'o

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > had same problem, solved rebuilding mbr > check fdisk, if same problem (16 heads instead of > 255 heads) this will help > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40lists.gentoo.org/msg07969.html > hmm, yes it *is* 16 heads. But before I tr

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > there were no succesful winxp boot, because bios > didnt enable LBA seting. i > dont think (win95)fdisk wil work with linux > partitions. Right, but booting a win95/98 CD and running fdisk /mbr from the DOS prompt will usually restore a WinXP boot sector. What's so bizarre in this case is th

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads > corect, write new > partition table --> reboot, LBA is on and win is What does this mean? LBA was off before and now it's on? Where? In the POST? dmesg? In the BIOS? fdisk? dos or unix?

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-25 Thread maxim wexler
> So if you do "ls -l .bash*" in your home directory, > what's the output? [EMAIL PROTECTED] blissfix $ ls -l .bash* -rw-r--r-- 1 blissfix users 0 Jul 6 14:59 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 blissfix users 232 Jul 2 21:12 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 blissfix users 812 Jul 2 21:12 .bashrc Note:

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!--SOLVED

2005-07-26 Thread maxim wexler
> a "fixboot" from the recovery mode of the WinXP CD > will be necessary. > This should not overwrite the MBR, only the boot > loader that is at the > beginning of the windows partition. The problem was two-fold: 1. WinXP boot sector was bad(my best guess). 2. Recovery Console suffered from o

[gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden shutdown, just churn

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-22 Thread maxim wexler
> > Be interested to hear from anyone else this has > ever > > happened to. > > > > Maxim > > Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do > you mean you're installing > to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? > Do I understand right > that the installation of XP went OK but bo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-23 Thread maxim wexler
> I doubt that would work. The virtual machine > identifies itself as > different "hardware" from the host, so the MS > profit-protection would > kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same > copy of the OS on two > different computers. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick Mebbe I'm confusing wine

RE: [gentoo-user] brlcad users here?--RESOLVED

2007-12-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- "Arttu V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:33:52 -0800 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Just to clarify: What does a 'pre-compiled binary' > do? > > I meant just regular binary files, which have been > compiled -- as opposed > to the source files (non-compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-24 Thread maxim wexler
> Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the > new disk is a direct > replacement for the old one, with the same > partitions etc, do I need to > change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just > work without > modification? I just did this. My method: Duplicate the partitions, f

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-03 Thread maxim wexler
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. -mw ___

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-04 Thread maxim wexler
--- Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:45:32 -0800 (PST), maxim > wexler wrote: > > > Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a > > recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv > > gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.2

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-04 Thread maxim wexler
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a > > > recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv > > > gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. > > > > But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. > > Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and m

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options

2008-01-08 Thread maxim wexler
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv vanilla-sources > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in > order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild N] > sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.22.9 > > USE="-build -symlink" 44,122 kB > > Use eix to search pack

[gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and the like. Prefer command line/ncurses. Maxim Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home

[gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, $eix kde gives: <...> * kde-base/kde Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 3.5.7:3.5 ~3.5.8:3.5 Installed: 3.5.2 Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE - merge this to pull in all non-developer kde-base/* packages <...> And h

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 24 January 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > $eix kde gives: > > > > <...> > > * kde-base/kde > > Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 > > 3.5.7:3.5 ~

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > maxim wexler schrieb: > > Hi group, > > > > $eix kde gives: > > > > > did you do an update-eix? yes > > > kde-4 ist masked. THink thats why it doesn show up. > What does ls > /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > Ah, you may have to get a later version of KDE 3.5 > before going any > farther. I had 3.5.8 on mine and had no blocks with > it. Want my > package.keywords and package.unmask files. Assuming a question. Yes, I'd like to see them. ___

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - > > And you should get A-440 out of your speakers. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out |play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3000 - play soxio: Failed reading `-': unknown file type and without the hyphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $

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